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Dear all,

I have recently joined this research community as I work for the European Marine Energy Centre.

We are a not-for-proft R&D organisation, supporting the commercialisation of wave and tidal energy through real-world testing on our special purpose sites. We are based in the Orkney Islands, an archipelago region to the north of Scotland, UK. We have significant interest (typically) in preventing corrosion and have followed guidelines and principles published by the AMPP previously, in support of reducing the failure rate for marine energy converters that are deployed at our site. In addition, we have followed guidelines for the production of hydrogen. Our hydrogen site is located on the Isle of Eday and the environment here is particularly corrosive. The air is concentrated with seasalt and high winds blow sand and other debris onto the site, creating issues with ensuring piping for green hydrogen production is air-tight and proofed against embrittlement.

My question however, is more based on reversing the principles of protection. We are interested in exploring "accelerating" corrosion, for subsea assets that are no longer required. Currently, there is a growing number of assets being deployed subsea, for offshore wind, oil and gas, and increasingly - marine energy. EMEC are interested in understanding how these assets can be removed at speed, using a battery-induced current making decommisioning more efficient and environmentall acceptable. I was hoping to gauge interest in reverse engineering your expertise, to see if there was any cutting edge science in this area?

Feel free to add comments to this thread if you are aware of any related activities, or additionally, feel free to get in contact on the details below!

Dear all,

I have recently joined this research community as I work for the European Marine Energy Centre.

We are a not-for-proft R&D organisation, supporting the commercialisation of wave and tidal energy through real-world testing on our special purpose sites. We are based in the Orkney Islands, an archipelago region to the north of Scotland, UK. We have significant interest (typically) in preventing corrosion and have followed guidelines and principles published by the AMPP previously, in support of reducing the failure rate for marine energy converters that are deployed at our site. In addition, we have followed guidelines for the production of hydrogen. Our hydrogen site is located on the Isle of Eday and the environment here is particularly corrosive. The air is concentrated with seasalt and high winds blow sand and other debris onto the site, creating issues with ensuring piping for green hydrogen production is air-tight and proofed against embrittlement.

My question however, is more based on reversing the principles of protection. We are interested in exploring "accelerating" corrosion, for subsea assets that are no longer required. Currently, there is a growing number of assets being deployed subsea, for offshore wind, oil and gas, and increasingly - marine energy. EMEC are interested in understanding how these assets can be removed at speed, using a battery-induced current making decommisioning more efficient and environmentall acceptable. I was hoping to gauge interest in reverse engineering your expertise, to see if there was any cutting edge science in this area?

Feel free to add comments to this thread if you are aware of any related activities, or additionally, feel free to get in contact on the details below!